Rick W / Tuesday, April 21, 2026 / Categories: Artificial Intelligence China’s open-source bet Silicon Valley AI companies follow a familiar playbook: Keep the secret sauce behind an API, and charge for every drop. China’s leading AI labs are playing a different game: They ship models as downloadable “open-weight” packages. This lets developers adapt the models and run them on their own hardware to build products without negotiating a… Previous Article Artificial scientists Next Article Resistance Print 6 Tags: ModeModelAI